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4 weeks ago | 
foxnews.com | David Bahnsen |Samuel Gregg
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Steve Hsu |Hamish McRae |Samuel Gregg
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s program to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) appears to be ahead of schedule. At the start of the month, the burger chain Steak ’n Shake announced that it would be frying its food in beef tallow rather than seed oils — and other major restaurant groups are following suit. This week, Kennedy, who hates seed oils and processed foods, rewarded Steak with an almighty PR stunt.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s White House encounter with Donald Trump was controversial even before it was announced.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Steve Hsu |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg
Before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk caused a huge controversy within the MAGA movement by advocating increased high-skill immigration. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency he wanted, for example, to expand the H-1B visa program, which many Trump supporters are against. The angry debate over the visa issue still rages on social media and both sides tend to talk past each other. The MAGA movement is against any increase in immigration, whether high- or low-skill.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg |Alexander Larman
Could it be that Donald Trump actually wants a bear market now? At some point, one was bound to happen on his watch — after all, US equities weren’t going to keep up their stunning gains from the past two years for the rest of his term. A market correction was inevitable, and it seems we’ve already seen that, as the S&P 500 dipped into correction territory this week. And a bear market was almost certainly coming, given that there have been 27 of them in the S&P index since 1928.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Samuel Gregg |Kate Andrews |Dave Seminara |Jane Stannus
If there is anything that all governments watch carefully, it is GDP growth. Without substantive and ongoing increases in what GDP measures — the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced in the economy over a specific time period — societies are in big trouble. That’s one reason why recessions usually result in electoral death for whoever holds office at the time. To accurately estimate total growth in an economy, everything that contributes to GDP must be measured.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Samuel Gregg |Kate Andrews |Jane Stannus |Matthew Lynn
If there is anything that all governments watch carefully, it is GDP growth. Without substantive and ongoing increases in what GDP measures — the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced in the economy over a specific time period — societies are in big trouble. That’s one reason why recessions usually result in electoral death for whoever holds office at the time. To accurately estimate total growth in an economy, everything that contributes to GDP must be measured.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Jane Stannus |Samuel Gregg |Kate Andrews |Dave Seminara
There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is starting to look like a prime example. On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to the US, affecting an estimated 1.5 million households and businesses in New York, Michigan, and Minnesota.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Paul Wood |Damian Thompson |Owen Matthews |Samuel Gregg
Steady rain during the day stopped just before Monday’s evening prayers for Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Square. A line of cardinals sat on a platform, an aging politburo in black and scarlet. A couple of thousand of the faithful and the curious stood below. Vatican gendarmes, wearing kepis and carrying sidearms, directed people to their places. The Swiss Guard were not on duty.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Samuel Gregg |Helen Dale |Thomas Powers |Robert G. Natelson
From the late-seventeenth century onwards, recognizably liberal ideas steadily moved to the center of Western philosophical, political, legal, and economic debates. Since that time, the same ideas have been subject to sustained critique from across the political spectrum.
